I think this show would be a tough binge.  An episode a week is about all I can handle.  That said, it is really good.

Right! It’s just wild that this seems to be never addressed or taken seriously by the show. I don’t have to watch Dr. Jacob lose his license; I just have to have somebody on the show realize that this is a serious enough breach that he could lose his license.

“Jack ghosting Keeley and moving to Argentina for a few months had big “Poochie died on the way back to his home planet” energy. (If that Simpsons reference goes over your head, please Google “Poochie” and thank me later.)”

I appear to be in the minority agreeing with the reviewer. It wasn’t a bad episode but they’ve got too many balls in the air. Did we even know Nate has a sister? Do we even care? Why do we keep tabs on Nate? I’m afraid that’s because they’re going to give him the unnecessary redemption arc and he’s going to take over…

Obviously I concur with this, but for some context: I wrote these reviews one-by-one using screeners, stopping after each episode to write the review and move on. This was done in isolation, before the season premiered. As a result, I knew very quickly that my presumption that the third episode would be earth-shaking…

I appreciate this comment, and I’ve been thinking how to respond to it all day beyond “please ignore the grades, I only do them because I have to.”

I think it makes perfect sense to present alternative ways a narrative could’ve gone that might have worked better. It helps a critic articulate more clearly where they see problems in the work, and it helps readers (including writers of fiction) understand alternative ways of telling a story that might work better.

Not that I’m so plugged in to soccer to really care about it that much but this season just did not care about it at all. We have the streak of draws at the beginning, we have “park the bus,” the FA Cup thing for a minute, and... this game? Maybe I’m forgetting something but... they just in the background won a bunch,…

As a person who finds Ted Lasso okay, I’ve watched the season two discourse with wonder. It really surprises me that people are just now realizing Ted Lasso is a saccharin show where no one suffers real consequences. That’s been the show all along!

I think season two suffered more from a lack of conflict and clear…

You’re not wrong that writing criticism is a personal journey, but there’s no such thing as overthinking a show. Not everyone agrees with that: trust me, I’ve been living with this claim for over a decade now. But as someone whose literal job—and my second job—is to analyze media in a way that many would claim to be…

If that moment clearly hit Ted, the episode needed a moment of self-reflection. The closest we get is his desire to walk home instead of accepting Trent’s ride. Otherwise, we get his scene with Rebecca and that conversation with Trent where there’s no real clarity. A Beard/Ted scene would have gone a long way to…